Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2347: 184: Ambush
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Vast and shadowy.
Swirling with 'black waves,' debris, and innumerable inexplicable voids, enigmatic, hidden, and serene like a profound bog.
Like an abyssal ocean, or a boundless primordial marsh woodland…
This is exactly the location of the Soul Falling.
A green-robed silhouette rapidly emerged from a Token beyond the Soul Falling, casting a gaze at the Soul Falling in front, the words he heard prior to departure still resounding in his thoughts, his heart burdened:
“Even Master Chao has fallen…”
Grieving and enraged by his death, yet also puzzled about the unclear path ahead.
Three of Duanhai Cliff’s Great Realm's four Mahayana had already perished, two slain and one wounded, while the Cloud Sky Realm stood invaded. From the circumstances when he departed, it seemed only a question of time before the Cloud Sky Realm fell entirely under control.
Lacking the Cloud Sky Realm's resistance against the Supreme True Buddha, breaking through the Immortal Pass to free the Little Cang World appeared nearly impossible.
But before deeper reflection could set in, his heart issued another warning!
“Where do you intend to escape?”
A gray silhouette abruptly materialized not far ahead of him, his face blending mercy with avarice, clad in a priest’s robe lacking one sleeve that exposed an arm and hand apparently dusted with golden powder. The moment he showed up, he summoned the unidentified powerful energies nearby, extending his hand toward Wang Ba!
It was the Northern Great Bodhisattva!
Wang Ba’s heart plunged, his wings flapping instinctively behind him, pulling back quietly amid a green gust, but his techniques were already familiar to the Northern Great Bodhisattva, who nearly predicted his path the second he shifted, launching a Buddha Bead straight at him!
Bam!
The Buddha Bead accurately hit Wang Ba, and the Earth Yellow Treasure Light erupted almost right away.
The glow quivered fiercely, even displaying subtle signs of fractures!
The Primordial Spirit quaked, the Land-Parting Staff almost dislodged from his grasp.
As that golden-powdered hand stretched toward him, Wang Ba composed himself, though shocked, he remained calm. A monkey leaped from his sleeve just as the hand neared, clutching two board tokens, and swung them wildly at the massive hand.
The Northern Great Bodhisattva’s eyes tightened, sensing the infinite enigmas enveloping that hand get dispelled instantly by the two board tokens, compelling the hand to pull back!
The agony was evident, yet his mind surged with shock and doubt:
“What on earth are these two board tokens?”
He had endured their effect once earlier, but despite endless contemplation, he remained unable to grasp their source, or the reason they bypassed his protections entirely, as though Earth, water, fire, and wind held no sway over them whatsoever.
Only through their application did he dimly sense they might function solely at short distances.
Cautious, his movements unavoidably slowed a bit.
Wang Ba grasped the opening. The Candle Dragon in his sleeve shut its eyes once more, plunging the area into silence, swallowing all in blackness!
The gray-robed monk appeared to anticipate this tactic. At the precise instant the Candle Dragon’s eyes closed, he darted beyond the boundless gloom, seizing the string of Buddha beads at his neck and hurling them inside.
In a flash, a golden mesh dropped down onto the darkness under the Candle Dragon’s command.
Swish!
Just before it could descend, a beam of green light burst forth from the depths, barely dodging the golden mesh, then hovered in the emptiness, eyeing the gray-robed monk with unusual somberness in his gaze.
This monk pursued without mercy, much like the prior Arhat of Wisdom. Despite fleeing vast distances via the Great Celestial Escape Divine Skill, he faced pursuit anew, the gap far briefer than against the Arhat of Wisdom.
His Spiritual Sense swiftly swept the area, his mood growing even graver.
This expansive void provided no support; considering the foe’s rapid approach, shaking him off looked virtually unattainable.
Glancing briefly at the Soul Falling nearby, myriad ideas raced through his head, solidifying into a spark of icy resolve.
With no delay whatsoever, he instantly became green light, darting into the Soul Falling’s depths!
“Hmm?”
The Northern Great Bodhisattva’s golden net failed to connect, but he showed no astonishment. Watching Wang Ba plunge into the void resembling a deep bog, he smirked, shifting into a gray streak, surging ahead directly!
He sneered even more:
“Layman Taiyi, three of the four Great Realms have collapsed, even four Mahayana cannot stand against our Buddha Lord. Even if you persist in defiance, how far can you truly flee?”
“If you were to lay down your blade and join me…”
The voice halted briefly, a gray gleam sidestepping a subtle golden sword gleam slicing ahead, unveiling a faintly irritated outline of the gray-robed monk:
“Stubborn and unyielding!”
Wang Ba slashed with a sword but didn’t pause an instant, his green light charging deeper into the Soul Falling!
His Spiritual Sense stretched to its utmost at that juncture.
Drifting rocks, tumbling Chaos Origin Substance, subtle phantom noises swelling in the stellar gales…and Demonic Beasts like Black Foxes charging from the shadows and emptiness.
The phantom noises issued from the jaws of those Demonic Beasts.
Myriad phantom noises ceaselessly battered his Primordial Spirit amid the wandering murk.
However, his Primordial Spirit, reshaped by the “Ten Thousand Streams Return to Source” sutra, possessed the vigor to embrace all flows, rooted in solid depths, so these phantom noises barely impacted him.
He disregarded them, speeding past those disoriented Black Foxes who hadn’t managed to set their ambush, his Spiritual Sense carefully probing everywhere.
“That’s not right…”
“It’s not here either.”
“I remember it should be here before…”